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It has been 10 Samuel I Rosenman taking a Made Concessions The concessions made to Russia years this week since his death similai position j that any Roosebut the arguments show no velt failure at Yalta was not in at Yalta were in return for sign of shaking down to agreepromise to jump into the agreement with Russia Stalin’s ment Here a reporter who making war RusJapan within 90 days against that not but in foreseeing House for White covered the after Germany’s defeat On the the unprecedented sia would fail to keep them’’ adFDR's of 10 years basis of predictions that it would nearly term of Franklin Delano “Yalta Was No Sellout” answers the seeks ministration take another 18 months to conRoosevelt D Leahy on William Adm served who Fleet from persons Seldom in history has the Japan the U S J o i n t of Staff quer Chief wartime or knew team FDR’s Roosevelt the Chief of Staff wanted Russia to death of one individual struck America and the world with such him well in other capacities) who was there says: “Yalta was come in no sellout” emotional impact Leahy said that was a majoristill swirls lent controversy President Roosevelt’s brimming around the way he used his au- wasAt Yalta aas elsewherenotLeahy He a po- ty not a unanimous stand military strictly confidence had lifted up a whole said he the urged personally results he the and (got litical adviser to Roosevelt nation in the dreary days of ap- thority not to push Russia to The stir which followed the time in my opinion” he President “That to kitchens and war ple selling soup against Japan recent release of the Yalta pamade be- go economic collapse It had lifted pers points up one fact: It may said “the agreements “Defeated Already” tween President Roosevelt and up free men — “the massed an- Je more decades before history Stalin did disadThe not have any Japanese were defeated gered forces of common humani an put Roosevelt in proper pros- vantage to us — - assuming the already by naval and air power” ty’Phe called them — in a grim pective His role at that con- Russians would keep their prom- he said “and there was no reason war against Axis aggression has been heatedly criti- ises to throw in an army to get a " Never before had the people ference cized and just as heatedly dewere “Several agreed half million men killed” things given a Chief Executive such fended want didn’t to Russians the that Leahy said he can see no maenormous power No FDR’s mistakes that Roosevelt made to back E Stalin jor Chiang Moley agreed Raymond He Changed Lives 1 braintruster in the early day If Russia had support Chiang Rosenman contended that all Franklin Roosevelt used that and now a contributing editor of we wouldn’t have this Chinese Roosevelt’s mistakes were minor power through the world’s most Newsweek Magazine calls what trouble now As for this busi- in the light of accomplishments However you may feel personcorrosive depression and its most took place at Yalta an “unbe- ness of selling China down the river and giving away privileges ally about' him and his work devastating war in a manner that lievable surrender at Yalta ” touched and even changed the Former War Production Board in Manchuria I never had a feel- millions still idolize his memory of lives every American of his Leader Charles E Wilson! ob- ing we were doing anything and nearly everything he did or own generation and those to serves that “Yalta is going to wrong” stood for Others detest him and come The Pacific Islands Russia was believe his four elections to the be awfully hard to explain’) But Now a decade later' the vio-- Robert E Sherwood author and allowed to take over he said White House undermined the latter-da- y By DOUGLAS B CORNELL Associated Press Staff Writer Ten years ago a President died A nation wept An epoch ended A massive cerebral hemorrhage brought to a sudden stunning close on April 12 1945 -- ex-advis- er - ’ SUNDAY MORNING APRH 10 STANDARD-EXAMINE- R -- Her rod & Co1 I Certainty Roosevelt was a kaleidoscopic complex man But no person could have been all that was said of him during his lifetime and 'after his death Letters reached Roosevelt addressed merely to “The Greatest Man on Earth” or to “Benedict Arnold II” Admirers likened him to Moses and St Augustine detractors to Judas and Pontius Pilate Many deeds of his administration have become an indelible part of American life Social Security for example anc Bank Deposit and Housing Loan Insurance and registration of securities - But the Roosevelt regime also left a tremendous national debt And in spite of billions spent on pump priming it fell far short of its goals of full employment and production in peacetime Probably the criticism will roll endlessly on of Roosevelt’s abortive effort to revamp the Supreme Court his unsuccessful attempt in 1938 to purge the Democratic Party of key Conservatives his wartime call for “unconditional surrender” and his negotiations at Yalta Controversy Subsided Yet at the instant of Roose velt’s death much of the controversy over his acts subsided for the moment beneath waves : of 1955 ‘ " s- - ' our time” figure Many echoed Australia’s Prime Minister Curtin in describing him as “one of the greatest men of all time” Soviet Ambassador Andrei A Gromyko praised the fallen President as “the greatest statesman the world has ever ' ' y V V j ' f ’iMfr-u- V:r w ' y' - W- vrvr: r a if s 2 - 'y f y known” He Loved the Spot The President was buried on a ay brilliant burgeoning spring morning in the hemlock bordered V rose garden of the Hyde Park ' v' vv N Y estate where he was born That and lived for 63 years was the spot he loved above all i ' others — the ancient trees the broad fields the sprawling comfortable cluttered house overm: ' looking the twinkling Hudson p' I remember the day he sent A ' V V his little Ford leaping out of tw i ' i of 1 the driveway with the King s England jammed back against the seat cramming his nat onto his head I remember the odd 'V whimsical little songs he uset a ¥ t 4 c n a ' to sing how he jeered w " cheered at softball games how he beamed and clapped at square dances how he used to exclaim “I love it! I love it” at anything that delighted him He was a warm and magnetic Women wept shrieked man Constitution wrung their hands at the sight v of him People were injured and With the march of the years even killed in crowds surging some of Roosevelt’s critics and of shock to get near him champions have mellowed a bit even years and shoving and months For They can look back now on what rumors had raced through the He Could be Bitter they consider to be his outstandYet Roosevelt could be bitter about FDR’s health — ing achievements as well as country He once a bad heart a or even vindicative cancer had he weaknesses and blunders a Nazi Iron a some Crossto awarded was in he mind The person who knew him best failing or sanitarium Written had reporter he thought Mrs Roosevelt says that at first hospital his and unfairly reflecting upon another His physician family she thought her husband would Franklin D Roosevelt T McIntyre re- newsman who had entered the R Vice Adm be remembered longest and most tired insisting all were untrue Army favorably for giving the Ameri- Mclntire administrations His were you could? Wouldn’t anybody?” Leahy and Charles E Wilson says that from the mocan people “a sense that they Baruch and Rosenman also Humor and Wit ment Roosevelt became Presi- marked by a number of participated in government” he died On a more restrained basis the mentioned erection of a framedent until the day he Now she says: At times he walked deliberate-- y Roosevelt humor and wi found work for building peace never had a really serious illthrough Concerned About Them on shaky legal and constiness never spent a night in a : Nations the United their into way many presidential tutional ground The destroyers “The greatest thing he accom- hospital of Former Assistant Roosevelt did for bases trade with Britain was speeches Along with them went State A A Berle Jr Secretary Nevertheless plished was to make people all FDR’s listed moving over the world feel that he and deteriorate perceptibly in his last an example And he once wrote magnificent phrases single failure as “no t therefore our country actually year In part the decline traced a HouseCommittee he hoped it FDR could open up a sweeping greatest to becoming a coRussia winning was concerned about them and back to a virus infection in the would tot “permit doubts as to vista in a minimum of words: of the family member operative d of a nation was interested in their problems” spring of 1944 It brought on Constitutionality however rea- “I see of nations” o sonable” to block regulation of In principle if not degree a lingering cough and a But Berle credited him with some others share that view And Helpers and advisers did the “mastering the fact and com fever The President lost prices wages and hours in the advance work on assembling and there are those who would agree weight and bounce His voice oft coal industry world that But municatingno it to the and 100 his famous first In with her that an outstanding and hearing weakened days distilling speech materialHis at best country probably weakness was an inability to get cheeks sank ' in His clothes that rewrote the economic laws they pretty much agree that the no two or three great land rid of people who were friends bagged loosely he had a pallor FDR held the hoop and Congress final product was distinctly masses could go it alone” but no longer useful or effec His appetite faded jumped throgh Later Conserva- Roosevelt j “His greatest accomplishment A number of persons — Retive Democrats and Isolationists tive Chair said Berle “was to Wheel In of both parties began to drift publican and Democrats prof- domestically” Linked with this weakness Appearedand more he made federal thei government More pubessors and: military men law- bring Mrs Roosevelt says was the way away from him of the the alongside problems a chair in lic wheel — appearance who leaders Roosevelt strongly rejected yers and business in which “Franklin gave people revolu20th capitalist to carry Communist backing as early as served on the Roosevelt team or tion Century the impression he agreed with He didn’t want now a have We modern in knew him in one capacity or an- government we didn’t have behis first bid for them when he really didn't at steel braces on his legs 1936 Still the names of men other were asked in interviews fore all” It makes possible a disaid have persons Important on the order of Alger Hiss ap- for appraisals of Roosevelt in rected economy which Mrs Roosevelt was Interviewed the Eisenin her New York home Two in retrospect they had known pear on the roster of his adretrospect is administration hower working was ministration Of the men who fell before Scotties — one a descendant of or feared that Roosevelt at with and great was regularity death FDR in the political arena Wen- - which businessmen the President’s famous Fala — dying But certainly Shattered Precedents masses support” in the minds of the dell L (1940) is dead and sat by her knee at lunch insist not Wilson listed a softness toward He set and shattered prece- former Willkie out set he when of the people President Hoover (1932) a on share and getting it ing as among FDR’s misCommunists a on that last journey to his “sec- dents on grand scale and former Gov Thomas E Dew takes and failures Could Dismiss People He and RobExecuwas Chief He the first ond home” the Little White of New York (1944) declined ey Sherwood E ert to tive to The President'Mrs Roosevelt House on Pine Mountain at Warm leave the country to be L ‘fly put the Supreme questioned row this in Court to to said could dismissvpeople quick- Springs Ga category in wartime the peo- Landoh report Replies woman a to His Worst Error The late Sen Robert A Taft ple by radio place ly and bluntly only “if he got Former Gov Alf Ml Landon of mad — but he seldom of Ohio — Mr Republican — in the Cabinet to write directly Roosevelt’s really Sherwood says did ” called Roosevelt “the greatest to the emperor of Japan — just Kansas (1936) had this to say worst error wAs clinging to “blind because nobody ever had done in reply to a question as to faith in Chiang as rep- Roosevelt’s greatest strengths and it before the future of China” And he was the first Presi- accomplishments and his greatest resenting Raymond E Moley the for-dent and the last according to weakness and failures : mer spoke of “war“I think his greatest accom- time braintruster the changed Constitution to run decisions that shaped the for and win a third term and then plishment was giving leadership world and not for good” to the awakening of the Ameria fourth The worst of these said Mohis administration spent can people to a new sense of civic ley were the uncondtional surWhile vast billions Roosevelt himself consciousness in dealing with the render pronouncement and the could pinch pennies He wasn’t social and economic problems of initialing of a plan from which averse to having collars and cuffs an expanding complex industrial Roosevelt later backed away to on his shirts turned He wore society and his greatest weak- convert Germany to a primarily a jacket with a patched elbow ness was the superficial way in agricultural nation on a 1936 trp through the dust which he attempeted to solve Perhaps with the passing of ' bowl many of them” 30-INC- H decade or many more another Roosevelt’s leadership in war- it In his personal correspondence be possible for persons may is a note to Mrs Roosevelt to time his dealings with Russia with an unbiased detached point trim the White House food bill his sweeping changes in the of view to determine with some During the wartime rationing structure of government and the certainty whether the Roosevelt pinch he complained of too much agreements he made at Yalta on balance was one of were among the outstanding as- record chicken and sweetbreads blunders or blessings pects of his (administrations However his record is finally Diplomatic Callers These time and up cropped weighed this much can never Apparently with reference to again in thej interviews be erased from it: On four unsome diplomatic callers he told Wartime occasions Franklin Leadership paralleled his wife in a memo: Delano was the choice Roosevelt Baruch Bernard “I am getting to the point his fellow of his listed the for Rosenman and countrymen Samuel rewhere my stomach positively ais r his indorsed and wartime among presidency They does not leadership bels and this help my — hunhim reindorsed with a with I relations outstanding accomplishments foreign powers This view was shared by Adm dred million votes bit two of them today” A memo to the White House housekeeper' protested that Is feathers should never be plucked until just before it is eaten TakENCINO Calif (AP) — The Curse of an Aching Heart” “Baby ing off the feathers dries up the meat” man who wrote “I Didn’t Raise Shoes” and “That’s How I Need Another to a naval aid re- My Bqy to be a Sold You” “Will you tell the troversial song of World War I quested: Navy band that I don’t like the —died last night at his Encino home way they play “The He was A1 Piantac osi 71 who Banner” — it should not have a lot of frills in it” got his first fame as a musician 5 He was a man who could roar as “Ragtime Al” in the early at jokes on himself and delight- 1900s in New York’s Chiinatown GRAND JUNCTION Colo ed in pulling them on others He He collaboratjed with Irving Ber— and numbers uranium some The bonus profearly didn’t fret as much as his suc- lin on (AP) cessor at the confining goldfish in 1914 became a charter member gram initiated four years ago to bowl existence of White House o ASCAP ia songivriters’ and stimulate production of domestic life publishers’ organization of the ore has resulted Roosevelt once asked a friend: Among his other songs were supplies “Wouldn’t you be President if “Palof My Cradle baysl” “The in payments totaling five million dollars to uranium miners in the United States The amount was announced lYou’ll find the "L” topi arrange- ent of surface units on this Philco yesterday by Sheldon P Wimp-fe- n doubles your 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